AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY


Broadcasting Services (Applications for Renewal of Licence Under Section 46(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992) Notice – August 2021


In accordance with sub-section 46(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the Act), the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) hereby notifies that the companies listed below have lodged applications for the renewal of the following broadcasting service licences:


 

Commercial Broadcasting Licensees

SL No

Service Area

State

Radio West Broadcasters Pty Ltd

10079

NARROGIN RA1

WA

Elldale Pty Ltd

10076

KATANNING RA1

WA

Geelong Broadcasters Pty Ltd

4151

GEELONG RA1

VIC

Radio Newcastle Pty Ltd

4117

NEWCASTLE RA1

NSW

Radio Gippsland Pty Ltd

4158

WARRAGUL RA1

VIC

Moree Broadcasting and Development Co. Pty Ltd

4135

MOREE RA1

NSW

Eyre Peninsula Broadcasters Pty Ltd

1639

PORT LINCOLN RA1

SA

Eyre Peninsula Broadcasters Pty Ltd

4195

SPENCER GULF NORTH RA1

SA

 

The ACMA is required to renew these licences unless it decides that an applicant is no longer a suitable licensee. A company is a suitable licensee if the ACMA does not decide that sub-section 41(2) of the Act applies to the company.

The ACMA may decide that 41(2) of the Act applies to a licensee if it is satisfied that allowing the licensee to provide or continue to provide a commercial broadcasting service under a licence would lead to a significant risk of: (a) an offence against the Act or the regulations being committed; (b) or a breach of the conditions of the licence occurring.

In deciding whether the sub-section applies, the ACMA is required by sub-section 41(3) of the Act, to take into account: (a) the business record of the company; and (b) the company's record in situations requiring trust and candour; and (c) the business record of the chief executive and each director and secretary of the applicant; and (d) the record in situations requiring trust and candour of each such person; and (e) whether the company, or a person referred to in paragraph (c) or (d), has been convicted of an offence against this Act or the regulations.

The Act does not require the ACMA to hold an investigation or a hearing into whether a commercial licence (sub-section 47(3)) should be renewed.